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(N0 Model.)

0. B. BANNING.

DUST PAN.

Patented Apr. 3, 1883.

[Mn/ente 25 the pan.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

GARINA B. BANNING, OF BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR, BY MESNE ASSIGNMENTS, TO HERSELF AND ROBERT A. MURRAY, OF SAME PLACE.

DUST-PAN.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 275,012, dated April 3, 1883.

(No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GARINA B. BANNING, of Boston, of the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Dust-Pans; and I do hereby declare the same to be described in the following specification and represented in the accompanying drawings, of Which- Figure 1 is a. top view, Fig. 2 a side elevation, and Fig. 3 alongitudinal and central section, of a dust-pan provided with or having my invention,thenatureof which is defined by the claim hereinafter set forth.

At its rear the d list-pan is provided with a trough, a, which extends below the bottom 11 of and across the pan, the back 0 and the flaring sides d d of the pan being projected above the the bottom and the trough, as represented. The handle 6 is fixed to and projects from the back at its middle. The said trough is to intercept and hold the dust that may be brushed into the pan and up its bottom, the trough preventing the dust from accidentally falling out or heingdischarged from Furthermore, the dust-pan, at its front or fore corners, is provided with two inclined points or spurs,j'f, that project from the bottom in manner as represented, they being, when the pan may be in use, to he 0 pressed into or against a carpet, in order to hold the front edge of the pan in close contacttherewith. There are also to the pan, at

its back and its rear corners, two other points or spurs, g g, which are bent or curved backward, as shown, they being to prevent the pan 5 from moving backward on a carpet while dust is being swept into and up the pan. It is sometimes inconvenient for a person to stoop while using a dust-pan. One having points or spurs projecting from it as described may 40 be placed on a carpet, and will be there retained in position while a person with a COlllmon broom may be sweepingdustinto such pan, the points saving the necessity of the sweeper stooping to grasp the handle in order to keep the pan in place, the dust being swept up the inclined bottom of thepan and intothe trough. By having the back and sides of the pan extended above the trough,dust cannot be swept or brushed across the top of and out of the trough, the extension of the back and sides serving to stop the dust and depositit into the trough.

What I'claim as of my invention is as follows, viz: A dust-pan provided with points or spurs and a dust-receiving trough,arranged with the bottom,back, and sides of such pan, substantially as set forth.

UARINA B. BANNING.

\Vitnesses:

R. H. EDDY, S. N PIPER. 

